Speaker Series: Martin Boyce

Glaswegian artist Martin Boyce takes inspiration from the collapse of utopian ideals that once surrounded mid-century modernism and modernist design. In past works, for example, he has re-deployed signature modernist furniture pieces into anti-heroic postures, re-making modern furniture designed by Charles and Ray Eames to reflect contemporary pessimism. Exhibiting extensively throughout Europe and North America, Boyce is in Vancouver for a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery. His installation for the CAG, Our Love is Like the Earth, the Sun, the Trees and the Birth features a series of sculptures suggesting both a park-like landscape and an interior apartment and is part of a series by the artist describing and abstracting cultural and social environments.

The Speaker Series (2000–2006) was a programme of visiting artist talks and lectures organized by Charles H. Scott Gallery in conjunction with the Art Now course at ECIAD. The programme was initiated by ECIAD faculty Ian Wallace in the 1970’s as a series of lunchtime artist talks. Wallace ran the programme until 1998.